0:00:00 - Alexia Usgaard

Because we all came here with a unique seed. The key is for all of us to honor our seed, to water our seed and to really show up in the world in that seed. My biggest desire is what will support you with truly knowing you, because I believe that if all of us do the work to truly know who we came here to be on a soul level, that will create the most beautiful version of the world.

Welcome to Elevate Daily, the podcast for those ready to elevate their life, one intentional day at a time. I'm your host, Alexia Usgaard, here to give you a permission slip to unapologetically savor the beauty and richness of life. Join me as we explore modern rituals, self-leadership, the gene keys and the art of elevating your health, wealth, love and leadership. It's time to elevate. Let's dive in. Hello, hello and welcome back to Elevate Daily. I am so enthused, especially to have you here today, as we are celebrating a sacred milestone here together at Elevate Daily. So we are officially at the space where we have reached the one year anniversary from when I first launched this podcast and if first off, I just want to say it feels so sacred to honor that it's been a year. I mean, for any of you who feel like if you've ever done a podcast, any long form content project, then you will know it is such a project of devotion, it is such a project of commitment, it's such a project that asks you to like dive into the depths of yourself. I can only speak for myself and so, yeah, I really am not taking it lightly. I think in the world it's just so easy to always be on the more train, to like constantly be doing more, to fix it on the next thing we're wanting to get done or to do, and I'm really been on a journey this year of remembering the importance of celebrating each step along the journey, celebrating each milestone, because, the truth is, the version of who I am today is very different than the version of who I was when I launched this, and I really honor the version of me a year ago, and I'm also going, okay, this moment is giving me a moment in time to actually really celebrate what has come to life in this podcast, all the incredible guests that I've had the gift of having incredibly deep, potent conversations with, hearing from you the downloads, the insights, the breakthroughs, the aha moments, the rituals that you're integrating into your life, the way it's impacting how you lead your business journey.

Parenting I never take it lightly when you send me the way, the rituals and everything I share impacts how you mother, how you father, how you show up in the world, and so it means everything to me, and so I've always wanted this podcast to never just feel like information. I always set the intention that everything I create is from a place of creating a transmission, and so I'm not afraid to say that, like when I go into guest interviews, I prepare like I definitely go into like deep devotion of honoring and understanding the body of work of those I interview. You know I every episode I do with you, I go through my own initiation of preparing, so that way, when I get to sit down with you, I feel so just true and like I can just trust what comes through. So, as we were sitting and going like what would be a fun episode for today to celebrate this milestone, we thought why don't we do an Ask Me Anything? Because of course, as you know, with every episode I put out there's usually a focus, there's a topic. Yet with this one I was like all right, let's hear from you. Like I want to hear, like what are you curious about? What's on your heart? What would you love to know? What are the specifics, what are the random questions? And to know me is to know. I love a good question, I live for a good question, and so I'm going to share, I'm going to respond to some of the questions that were sent in from you and, yeah, just have fun with it. And this is actually fun for me, because this is like the episode that I'm not prepared for, in that it's kind of fun. With this one, I get to be like okay, let's see this list of questions, and I'm literally, I have my computer here, I'm just going to literally follow whichever question stands out and just respond and share from my heart with you. So, yeah, it feels so lovely to get to do it this way with you.

The one question that we actually will start with, though, is the question that was the most popular question that was submitted, and it was a question that was what are your guilty pleasures? I just first thought I think this is so sweet and so fun because it's actually it's like, when I immediately think about guilty pleasures, I'm like okay, so like which category? I'm like okay, so immediately, for me, I would say food pops in instantly as one. And actually one submission said like, also like what are your vices and or guilty pleasures, which I find interesting because I definitely relate more to the guilty pleasure side of things, but I would say, where I even put like a vice into my category, would be maybe something that I would consider a guilty pleasure that then airs on the side of being done in excess. You know, and I would say, the main vice that I have and again I'm just thinking from a food perspective for some reason right now is coffee.

I am a coffee lover. I love the smell of coffee, I love the taste of coffee like good quality, strong coffee, like I do not want the coffee that tastes like coffee flavored milk, like I'm the one that's. Like I want to taste the coffee with a dash of milk, and so I'm a. I love a good Cortado, a good oatmeal Cortado, I just like. I love going to a really amazing coffee shop. I love exploring good coffee shops where you can just feel like the love. Going to a really amazing coffee shop, I love exploring good coffee shops where you can just feel like the love and intention that's put into the coffee. So the. So I'm over here on this episode and, of course, like another funny silly part about me recording these episodes is, bubbles is often my puppy is often running around and right now he has decided he wants to have me play with him and his little stuffed toy at this moment.

So I was saying with coffee, like for me, I consider coffee one of my guilty pleasures. I don't think coffee is unhealthy, obviously when you honor it and you have reverence for it. I just I know it can definitely be the thing that falls into my vice category If I get a little unconscious about it, if I start having a little too much of it, if I start relying on it excessively. For you know energy levels and like you know those moments when I know my adrenals are getting a little bit too much energy coming to them, that would be the one that I immediately would put on the like. Guilty pleasure can definitely go into a vice category when I'm not mindful.

And then I would say, like other food items, that are my guilty pleasures. Okay, I would say I love French fries. I would say I love a good French fry, like good French fry with ketchup, or as they call it in South Africa tomato sauce discovered this. Or like, ideally for the Americans, like the In-N-Out, like flavor sauce with French fries. So good, love, a good French fry. Like that's definitely the type where, if, like, someone puts it on the table, it's really hard for me to not enjoy. And then what else? Okay, I will also say like the guilty pleasure that I just feel like brings out my inner child is what I would say is I love gummy bears. My sister and I both just have this love of this and I don't know if it's just something that we always got to have like sleepovers or at like special occasions, but for some reason, when I get to have that type of thing yeah, like the Haribo gummy bears, or like, yeah, the sour patch watermelons, or just like a really good gummy worm or something like I don't know why, it just hits it, I don't know, it makes it like again. It feels like my inner child comes out and she like has a happy dance situation. So this would be like what comes up for me there. Any other guilty pleasures like outside of food, I mean, I would say from like.

If we talk about like, what pops in is when I think about media, like the things I'm watching on Netflix are I think Z finds it really cringe, I think I don't know. Here's my truth If I'm going to watch TV. I want to watch TV and like develop a deeply emotional connection to characters and I want to watch something that, at the end of the day, is not too complicated, doesn't make me question the entire world and like just worry about the world excessively Like I can't. I'm definitely not the one who's watching stuff with like extreme violence. I'm definitely not the one watching stuff with anything that's like too gory, horror, anything like that. I am the girl who watches like small town shows that are so simple and just sweet and wholesome. Like I love a wholesome tv show. Like I love you've ever heard of Chesapeake Shores? I like just loved that show so much during the COVID days. I love like Virgin River or like Sweet Magnolias. Like I just love those types of shows like that's what I'm watching on Netflix.

And then I also will say I am a huge I don't even know like I guess it is like a guilty pleasure, but I don't feel that guilty reading these.

But anyways, I love a good fiction novel. I like live for fiction as well, like I love all my nonfiction books. Of course I'm always devouring the Jinkies, like I'm always in those books, but actually I would say that I have almost integrated and learned sometimes more from fiction novels sometimes than I have actually from reading a really specific full-on self-development spiritual book. Because here's my okay, I'll just tell you, like, my random thoughts on this, as we're already in the ask me anything dynamic when I think about fiction. So I would say I'm someone who's definitely very not that this will surprise anybody.

I live for understanding people. I'm so intrigued by like how do we think? How do we feel, how do we operate which, of course, is why I do the work I do and I find that books like especially fiction that's really well written or just fiction in general is like gives me an opportunity to really dig deep and feel into more of the deeper internal narratives of the characters. Because when you watch movies, of course, like you have little snippets of it, but in books, like the way the author articulates the internal dialogue and narrative that different characters are experiencing, like there's something in that that just makes me feel all the things like I love a book that makes me cry. I love a book that makes me cry. I love a book that makes me think. I love a book. Like I feel like certain fiction books have helped me understand some of my family constellation dynamics or like, understand myself deeper. But then I would say my guilty pleasures in fiction I do. I love the fourth wing.

I never thought I would say I was someone who, like, loved dragon books, but I will say that book got me me. I feel like between the female strong protagonist it's got the development between, like the dragons and the different characters. I would also say in terms of like other just fiction novels I often find I recommend, like I love a good Emily Henry witty, slow burn romance novel. Like I find she just has that way of making things like super again, wh, wholesome but also funny. So that would be also a guilty pleasure. These aren't questions I like think to ask myself. So this is actually quite fun to see.

Okay, let's see what comes up. Okay, can you give me insights into how the gene keys is practically applied? How can I actually use them in my daily life or business? Oh, okay, great question. So this is what I would say I think is one of my specialties is so if you, whether or not you are someone who has never heard of the gene keys before, which not, you are someone who has never heard of the gene keys before, which hello, in my world you'll hear me talk about it a good amount, a lot. Or you're someone who's been in it deeply for a long time and have been appreciating the way I talk about it.

I would say, for me, I'm very interested in a lot of my focus is on how do we honor the gene keys, but then how do we ensure that we can integrate them in a practical way in our lives? So I guess, like how I apply them practically. This goes into my entire methodology in my work. So for me, I don't just do the gene keys and this is because this is not only what I saw in my own life was super significant, but it's also what I saw over and over and over again with clients supported ensuring that you could practically apply the gene keys. Because I think the biggest thing I hear with a lot of people who just go straight into the gene keys is the body of work is so rich.

And Richard Rodd, I have deep, deep, deep respect and reverence for the level of devotion he's put into writing a book that's so, so potent and has so much heart and depth in it, and I also find that it can also be something that can lead you a little bit into like whoa, I just opened up a lot for myself to learn with myself, but I don't know what like how does this go into the decisions I'm making in my business right now, or my life, or my relationships? And so for me, what I've seen and how my methodology works in terms of like really ensuring it's practical, is I see the gene keys as the map to really know ourselves, to like really have language, to know ourselves Like. I just find it so powerful because, you know, we all have those things inside of ourselves, like these patterns we do, these dysfunctional things that we criticize ourselves for all the time, the flaws, the insecurities and I find what I love is that moment when I'm with myself and when I'm witnessing a client or someone in my world and I notice that, as I share their gene key, they get language to actually go like. Even the shadow can be such a relief to hear language around, because it's like that's what I navigate, that's that thing I do that I haven't been able to articulate or I find really frustrating about myself or I wish I was trying to describe it to my partner or my husband, like I couldn't quite articulate it and so I find it gives you that language to have really honest conversations with yourself and also help to like filter out a lot of noise. Because I think, especially in today's world, especially with AI moving at the speed it is right now, I think it just is a time that it's so important to focus and to get really honest about who you are and what you truly want to show up for, and not try to be everything to everybody else and not try to always be at everyone else's pace.

And I think the gene keys give you that language, that map, that opportunity to really know who you are. And so what I find is it gives the awareness. And then what I do is then, with the awareness, I love to focus on what are rituals that then ground it. So it's not just like, okay, now you know your gene key. It's like, okay, now we know this is like your core gene key with your mission. Okay, let's come up with what's a specific ritual that supports you with really being in connection with your gift, frequency of your mission code right, or if we're like looking at your money code as an example, right, we'd look at, okay, now that we know that your money code is patience, right, like I think about someone who I know who's that's their gift and so there's a ritual around.

Like them, we might come up with a ritual specifically with them, because that might be the area they're really wanting to practically integrate this in their life and business. And so in this person's case, there was this energy about like how do we create a ritual where they can trust that the wealth that they're building long-term? And so a lot of for them was this journey of creating a ritual. They got intimate with money where they started having a ritual on a daily basis. They actually connected to their bank accounts, they connected to what they were creating and they did it from a place of really honoring what is and trusting what's coming. But they got to see, they started to get to like connect with actually what was being created over time instead of some part of themselves that just wanted it all to happen like overnight. And so we really got them to like stretch into having and tapping into more of that patient's frequency and seeing how, with the patients, like how it was naturally compounding and growing over time. So those are just some examples. So this is how I approach it. This is why I think my methodology is very unique is because those are my two arms.

In all of my work. I look at your gene keys to get really specific about who you are, and then, with that awareness, we go okay, now let's ground this into specific rituals that support you with on a daily basis, connecting with your gift frequencies and alchemizing the shadows, and so, yeah, that's what I would say there. Okay, what else is here? Oh, yeah, this is a classic question. Actually, I get a lot, so let's talk about it. What's the difference between the gene keys and human design? Do I need to know both? So here's what I'll say about that. Richard Rudd, the founder of gene keys, studied and worked with the creator of human design for a while, and so he did that and then, basically, after some time of doing that, he saw that there was still this whole body of work he saw within himself that had this whole other depth he wanted to bring forward.

What I think about I'm someone who doesn't operate in dogma. I don't think like, if you don't resonate with the Gene Keys. I'm not here to be the person who's like you have to like. I don't think we. I just don't believe in any system having to be the end all be all for everybody. I stand behind the gene keys all the time because I have seen over and over again and I watched in my life. I've watched it in so many of my close family members lives, my husband's life, sister. You know, like clients that I've worked with all over the world so many clients at this point I have seen how revolutionary it is and I trust that all systems, if they align with you, like they really speak to your soul, like I trust that and I don't think we also have to only believe in one system. I think there's a gift in keeping yourself connected in a way, and so what I've always seen the human, because I honor both systems. So for me, human design gives you an operating manual, like a, an operating manual to know how to human, in a way, is how I would think of it right. It gives you some quick understanding about how you make decisions. It gives you some quick understandings about some of your key energetics, whereas I would say the gene Keys gives you a roadmap to truly understand yourself on a soul level. I think it gives you language For me.

I'm someone who's fascinated by the power of communication. I feel like so much of the tension we navigate in the world is struggling to articulate our insides like who we are on the outside. I think about how much of the stress and conflict and pain I see most people are facing is something usually linked to struggling to really accept and to love and to honor and be true to parts of ourselves and interpersonal dynamics right, it's the family dynamics. We're navigating child-parent dynamics. We're navigating dynamics. We're navigating child-parent dynamics. We're navigating sibling dynamics, friendship, relationship, like right. Interpersonal dynamics have such an effect on us constantly in life and I find that, of course, the basis of that to like really communicate, I find, effectively in relationship with anyone else comes from us being in true, authentic relationship with who we are and being so intimate with us and knowing what decisions are actually aligned for us. Like.

I find it so powerful because in the Gene Keys system there's so much depth and opportunity for you to really understand how do you show up as your best self on a soul level and who you came here to be in these different 11 areas of your life. So it's so specific, it's so potent, it's so deep, and I find it just gets through all the fluff and just immediately gives you the opportunity to really tap into being the best version of you. And I find it has been so revolutionary for me in terms of knowing how to actually have honest conversations with myself about what I really want, because I will say yeah, I will just say it so frankly. I think one of the hardest questions for so many of us is what do you want? Like, what do you want really? Not what have you been told you want, not what should you want, not what would make you a good person. It's like what do you really want? And sometimes I find for some of us it requires us to like really dream bigger. And actually for some, it requires us to like actually honor that we're good, like we've created so much we love. And it's actually a bit more of a melty time and sometimes it's a combination of both, but I find that this system just really gives you so much opportunity to illuminate what you truly want, who you came here to be, and, through that, be so much more clear and loving and honest in all of the relationships of your life. Because if you run a business, what is business? Relationships right? Like you're in relationship with your clients, with your customers, with your team, if you have vendors, like it's all relationships, like all of life is rooted in relationship to yourself and to others. So, for me, that's what I see and, in terms of like, what was the question? Do I need to know both? No, I don't. I think you can just really tune into what supports you, because, at the end of the day, that's my biggest desire is what will support you with truly knowing you, because I believe that if all of us do the work to truly know who we came here to be on a soul level, that will create the most beautiful version of the world, because we all came here with a unique seed. The key is for all of us to honor our seed, to water our seed and to really show up in the world in that seed of wisdom, of love, of beauty. Your gifts Okay, where do I want to go next?

Okay, let's see which episode or guest surprised and or delighted you the most and why. Oh my gosh, that's actually really hard for me to tune into. You know, the first thing that actually pops into my being actually would be the episode I did with my husband which was in the earlier days of the show. I think I'm trying to think of what number that episode is, I don't know, I'll put it in the show notes, but if you have or haven't listened to it, that episode touched me deeply.

So Z and I Zenaid and I, my husband we sat down and I'd had this vision of the podcast from the beginning of the creation and the ideation of it is. I want this podcast and obviously I've experimented this year, done so many different types of episodes, but I also do desire like I guess this episode in a way is kind of that to have more episodes where I just, you know, it's like we just get to have the conversations that you'd almost would just have, you know, if you're talking to your like closest friends, you know, and how do we have more of those conversations openly and I feel like love and partnership is something that I would say Z and I is actually really sweet. So, as I'm recording this right now, this episode, we're actually today celebrating our like eight years since we first started dating and we're in this really sweet right now as I'm recording this like just in this really sweet honeymoon era, and I feel like that's what's so interesting about partnership is you obviously go through so many seasons and depths and growth over the time. But why I loved that episode, or probably why it delighted me the most and why it stands out to me, is I just loved seeing Z share. I think you know I'm in a lot of circles and spaces where I think you know as women, we'll talk about like how we're navigating relationship, what it's like for us when we first meet a partner. But I think hearing him give his male perspective on what it was like when he first met me, how he felt in that part of the story, what supports him in honoring sacred partnership, like having the male perspective, was so powerful. And I think just getting his inside scoop on what he was thinking and feeling in those early days of dating and like obviously also how we've grown in our partnership of now eight years yeah, I just he's also not someone who's like really done a lot of podcasts.

I think it was just so sweet to sit down, have a real chat press record and also to hear a lot of your your reflections like the amount of reflections I received from that episode from different people sharing how it really gave them so much hope in terms of what they want in a partner. You know people I heard who were like in a dating relationship dynamic where, like through hearing the episode, we're like, nope, this is reminding me I'm not going to settle. And some of those people actually one person in particular stands out to me as someone I know now actually has found a soulmate partner. Like that episode. Yeah, I would just say that's the first one that popped into my heart, is like. That one surprised me, delighted me and actually makes me kind of still teary eyed when I think about it, because it was just so raw, real, sweet and just us.

It felt so nice to share something that's such a true part of my daily life and, honestly, something I'm really like if I'm really honest, like one of the things at this point I feel most proud of in my life is the sacredness and the intentionality of that partnership he and I have created together, because I will not say has not been butterflies and rainbows for us, you know, like, as two people who live are from opposite sides of the world, we have multiple cultures within our relationship. You know we've lived now in multiple states within the United States. We have lived now in different continents together, different parts of also South Africa now together. Like we've started businesses We've we both have left massive career opportunities. Like we've just gone through I feel like full on powerful seasons.

But I just really honor that through all of the seasons, especially the really hard, darker times, that we've always really had a commitment to finding ways to do our rituals. This is why I am the biggest advocate for rituals, because, if I think about what is the foundation and actually that was a huge part of what we talked about in the episode with him I'm referencing is our rituals are what have helped us navigate the seasons, in all truth Cause we've also had times where we were long distance. We've had times where, like he was traveling back and forth, like I moved to a new city and he was still having to go back and forth with the old city, and so our rituals are like what I really get honest have helped us to have the honest conversations with each other, to find the intimacy, to find the melt, even in the hard, you know, and to always come back to ourselves and to each other. And so, anyways, that's. There's so much more I can say, but I think it's something I've been really taking a moment to honor, because if you're in relationship or you're wanting relationship, like I just don't think we give ourselves enough credit about what it truly takes and what it asks of us to one really hold our standard to call in the most hell, yes, full body, yes, partner that truly inspires us to grow, because I think that's the other thing about partnership. It's like this interesting paradox I find within him and I's relationship in that, like we're such a team and there's such a level of being, this comfort with each other, and also he has this way of pushing me and challenging me and inspiring me, unlike anybody else. And I think that polarity, those two dynamics in our partnership, are so important and it also requires I've learned a deep level of self-awareness to be able to honor both those parts, because to be so inspired and challenged by him at times has asked me to like rise, to not get defensive, to like meet parts of my blind spots and shadows that, like your girl did not want to see initially. So I think it's it's really a choosing and it's a choosing every single day and I just really realize, and that's why that episode again really spoke to me, because I got to hear his lens and his awareness to on what has supported us over the years and like really honoring the love we have today.

Okay, let's see, I might do like one or two last questions. Let's see what speaks to me. Um, which celebrity, living or dead, would you love to have as a guest? Oh my gosh, okay, there's so many, but my commitment to you is just to answer the first thing that pops into my heart, in my head. I would love, I would love to interview Taylor Swift. I that just immediately pops in. I just would love.

There's so much I'm curious about in terms of her creative process. I'm someone who's also as you probably wouldn't be surprised, I'm fascinated by what supports someone with truly living a life of excellence. I know she has so many rituals, I just know it. I'm like the level she operates at, the way she creates and the way she does. I just know there's rituals, and so I would just love to be able to get deep in there and to actually ask her what are those rituals? I have no doubt she has pre-performance rituals, post-performance rituals, because in a lot of ways, I mean for her to like when we think about the Eras tour as an example to stay on that level, to be doing these three-hour shows day in, day out, in different cities, continents like all over the world like to hold yourself and to sustainably rock up in the way she does.

I'm like, okay, yeah, she's the one I would find so interesting. Her mindsets I would find really interesting to dive into and to get some clarity and I say all of this also with a wink wink that one of the things I am creating that's coming up soon is a Taylor Swift Gene Keys episode, so stay tuned for that. But she would like I would love to share her Gene Keys with her and I would absolutely love to just dive into so many different aspects with her, cause I and I would absolutely love to just dive into so many different aspects with her, because I'm like I have so much respect for her on multiple levels as a musician, as an artist, as a marketer she is one of the most strategic marketers and also as a businesswoman, like I mean what she's created, how she showed up, and she's been in the industry for a long time and she's dealt with a lot, and so, yeah, that's who I would. That's who immediately popped in, but there's many others that would pop in for me. Okay, last question what's one thing you know now that you wish you knew when you started the podcast? Ooh, that's a good question. I'm actually a little bit stumped. Okay, hold on, I've got this. It's interesting because I don't think there's anything I actually would tell myself in a certain way, because I kind of am someone who's come into the creative process more and more, realizing that every step you take reveals the insights you need for the next step. So, okay, this is what feels true for me in this moment, I think one of the best things that happened to me with this podcast.

So I wanted to start a podcast. It's one of the projects that was on my heart for the longest period of time, like it's the type of project I wanted to start when I first started my business, like back in 2019,. There were many seasons where I wanted to start a podcast and my ego would get involved, like I need to do it now, and I'd feel like the hustle and I'd feel this feeling like it's time I've got to do it, but I would also always as not that you'd be surprised, like I'd always come back to my soul and my soul would say not yet You're still brewing. Not yet You're still brewing. And I feel like we all have these things that live within us where there's always that beautiful conversation happening of sometimes realizing like, am I procrastinating or am I actually being told honor your timing, wait a minute? Like we need a little bit more brewing time.

And I think because I really was patient with this project and I really let it brew until the time on a soul level, I knew it was time. I think that's why I actually don't have much that I wish I knew before, If that makes sense. I feel like there's past projects I can think of where I would have had a good amount of advice or things like in hindsight I would tell myself, but actually with this podcast, I feel as though it's always such a reminder to me, even now, that if I ever find that little moment of impatience, that little moment of myself that feels like I need to rush, I have to honor that. There's the gift in the divine timing and I find that if we follow our divine timing, then we're able to surrender so much to each step along the process and I feel like that's really what I've learned in this podcast process, cause going into it I already knew I've done long form content before through doing I had done like a TV show series for a network. I've done like a YouTube channel in the past, so I had I knew which. Again, if we think about that right, like in a way, I could look at those past projects and be like, oh bummer that I only did them for a specific period of time, but it's like no, they were like the building blocks in many ways, when I think about it, that led me to have so much awareness of what it would take to run and to create a podcast the way I wanted to. And so, yeah, I think I look back at that wisdom I collected along the way and then, yeah, I'm just really grateful that I feel like in this process I've really stayed true to me. I feel like there's been moments I could, you know, like we all have those access to little quick, easy buttons or things we could do or ways we could ruin the fun and the process for ourselves. But I've always committed to enjoying every single episode I put out. I've been devoted to honoring that when I feel the intuition to bring a guest on that. I honored that timing that I don't do anything unless I and my entire body feel the full body, yes and yeah. Yeah, that's, I think, what's really helped me flow, I would say.

The thing I would remind myself, if I could say anything to myself when I first started the podcast is to trust the parts of myself in my expression that are imperfect, and old me would have had an internal voice that's like oh, lex, close it up right now, you shouldn't keep sharing this piece. But I kind of have come to realize that, especially in the world of AI, where everything's becoming so clear and crisp and everything's polished in the way it is that the part that makes us human is that when we actually authentically communicate and when we're being real, sometimes we need space, sometimes we need to vocalize, sometimes we just need to share, and then the answers come to us. It's not always so quick, it's not sometimes always so to the point. I would just tell myself those parts that you think are imperfect along the way, or the parts you think like, oh, you should have done that better, lex, like maybe you could have been a little bit more clear or succinct in that moment have been a lot of the moments. I find that I've been reflected by you all, that those are the moments you actually connected with me in some ways the most. So that's what I would tell myself. It's just, don't be a perfectionist about it. Trust yourself on a deeper level, and I guess that's my message to myself at this point for the next year of this podcast.

And so, yeah, I just want to say thank you so much. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. It's been a whole mixture of different topics and questions and things that came through, and if you've liked this episode, please let me know, because I'd be happy to do more things like this. And, yeah, just more than anything, I'm just so grateful for the gift that is you. I'm so grateful for any of you who've gone and reviewed the show. It means so much to me. When you do that, it really impacts the show. It impacts my ability to bring guests on the show and when you share it with others who you feel like it will really touch, it really touches me deeply. So, yeah, I just appreciate you and, yeah, until next time, I hope you keep elevating your life, one intentional day at a time.

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